Nancy Jane Boettger (born May 1, 1943) was the

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State Senator from the 9th District. A

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, she served in the

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since 1995. She received a

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in Sociology from

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in 1965 and a B.A. from

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in Education in 1982. Boettger served on several committees in the Iowa Senate: the Agriculture committee; the Appropriations committee; the Human Resources committee; the Judiciary committee; the Rules and Administration committee; and the Education committee, where she was the

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. She also served as the ranking member of the Education Appropriations Subcommittee. Boettger was re-elected in 2006 with 14,474 votes, running unopposed. She left office in 2015. After Regent Nancy Boettger warned Iowa State University in July 2022 to keep free speech in mind while teaching the “politically charged topic” of climate science, she gave ISU a pair of books from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change — which denies the notion of human-induced climate change. Boettger was appointed to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa on March 1, 2017, by Governor

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. Her term expires April 30, 2023.

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